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News Articles: Politics

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  • Politics

Top GOP Georgia lawmakers flex muscle in latest school voucher push

An expansion to Georgia’s school voucher program is getting another shot this year after passing the House Education Committee on party lines Wednesday.

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Ross Williams
The Georgia Diaper Bank Coalition.

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  • Politics

Georgia's Diaper Bank Coalition holds first Diaper Needs Awareness Day at the Capitol

On Wednesday, March 13, 2024, the Georgia Diaper Bank Coalition hosted the first Diaper Need Awareness Day at the Georgia Capitol. The event served to draw attention to rising costs of diapers and the families in the state who are struggling to afford these essential child care items.

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
Alabama's state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. earlier this year.

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  • National

How 'fetal personhood' in Alabama's IVF ruling evolved from fringe to mainstream

To those who have watched how certain elements of the anti-abortion campaign have gone from fringe to mainstream, the Alabama IVF decision is both validation and a warning of more shifts to come.

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Odette Yousef
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally in Phoenix on Dec. 20, 2023. Both Kennedy's campaign and a super PAC supporting him are working to get the conspiracy theorist on state ballots around the country.

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  • Elections

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to get on the ballot in all 50 states. It won't be easy

To run for president as an independent candidate, conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs to get on ballots, a complicated and expensive state-by-state undertaking.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee presides in court during a hearing in the Georgia election interference case.

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  • Law

Judge in Georgia election interference case quashes some charges against Trump

The judge overseeing the Georgia racketeering case against Donald Trump and his allies has quashed a number of charges related to soliciting officials to violate their oaths of office.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, Republican candidate for governor, speaks at an election night event in Greensboro, N.C., Tuesday, March 5, 2024.

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  • Politics

N.C. Republican nominee for governor has a long history of controversial remarks

Republicans in North Carolina voted overwhelmingly to nominate Mark Robinson for governor. He would be the state's first Black governor and has come under fire for controversial remarks.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Colin Campbell
Georgia state Sen. Kim Jackson (D–Stone Mountain) speaks out about the  about an amendment to HB 1170 which passed March 11 in committee. The unrelated amendment would ban puberty blockers for transgender minors.

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  • News

'Lawmakers': Golf Day, HBCU Heritage Day and an appearance by Gov. Kemp on Day 34

A controversial amendment introduced this week by Sen. Ben Watson (R – Savannah) during a committee meeting would ban puberty blockers for transgender minors, including those already receiving the therapy. Critics of the amendment say that it steps on parental rights.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis and
  • Tristan Smith
The House passed a bill Wednesday that would require ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to sell the app or face a ban on U.S. devices. The legislation's fate is unclear in the Senate.

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  • Politics

Why the House voted to ban TikTok and what could come next

The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a bill that would force parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban of the social media app on U.S. devices.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • Bobby Allyn
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid make their way along a street in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

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  • Middle East

This Maryland senator says a law could allow Biden to push for more aid in Gaza

Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland, visited the Rafah border crossing back in January, and has been raising concerns ever since that Israel is obstructing the flow of vital supplies.

March 13, 2024
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  • Christopher Intagliata,
  • Jordan Marie-Smith,
  • and 1 more
Protesters of a House bill hold signs in support of TikTok at a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

Congress mulls another TikTok ban; An aid ship heads to Gaza as hunger worsens

The House will vote on a bill that would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company or else face a ban from U.S. app stores. The first ship carrying food to Gaza is on its way from Cyprus.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell, seen here at a South Carolina Republican Party event in 2022, has been circulating a memo laying out "the threat of non-citizen voting in 2024."

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  • Elections

Conservatives are warning about noncitizens voting. It's a myth with a long history

The false notion that undocumented immigrants affect federal elections has a long history. But this year, due in part to rising migration at the U.S. southern border, the idea could have new potency.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Miles Parks
U.S. President Bill Clinton presides over the 1993 peace accords signed at the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The aim was a negotiated deal ending decades of conflict between the two sides. But no agreement was reached. Today there's talk about recognizing a Palestinian state first and then negotiating the details afterward.

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  • World

A radical Mideast proposal: What if the U.S. recognized a Palestinian state now?

The formula for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long called for negotiating a Palestinian state. What if that were reversed and a state were declared first and then negotiated later?

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Participants hold signs in support of TikTok at a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on March 12, 2024, in Washington, D.C. House Democrats and TikTok creators and business owners held the news conference to express concerns over House GOP legislation that would force the owners of the popular Chinese social media app to sell the platform or face a ban in the U.S.

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  • Technology

Content creators blast a potential TikTok ban

The House is gearing up for a Wednesday vote on legislation that could lead to a ban on one of the most widely used apps in the world, with an estimated 170 million users in the United States alone.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Windsor Johnston
Ukrainian soldiers from The 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Mariupol Brigade prepare to fire a multiple launch rocket system based on a pickup truck towards Russian positions at the front line, near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 5, 2024.

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  • Politics

Pentagon to give Ukraine $300 million in weapons

The Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn.

March 13, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
President Joe Biden, left, on Jan. 5, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, right, on Jan. 19.

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  • Elections

Trump and Biden clinch 2024 presidential nominations

The general election rematch between former President Donald Trump and President Biden is now official. Both men have now secured the required delegates to be their respective party's nominee.

March 12, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
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